Re: simple error

From	"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: simple error
Date	2014-12-29 08:20 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<m7qrql$3no$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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2014-12-29, 0:10, Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>> The issue was the use of the code
>>
>> <td onclick='this.innerHTML = `X`;'>--</td>
>>
>> which was stated to work in Firefox.
>>
>> There is no HTML error in that code. The error is in JavaScript code.
>
> Obviously, not.  Otherwise it wouldn't work in Firefox' JavaScript
> engine as if the backticks have been quotes.

So are you saying that there is no error in code? And that if something 
works in an implementation it’s not an error?

Some future extension to the language might make it valid, and might get 
implemented, but that’s a different story.

What matters here is that the error*) is in JavaScript code, not in HTML 
code, contrary to what the troll’s message claimed

*) Just to save us from pointless philosophy of “error”, you can read 
“error” simply as my shorthand for “a deviation from the current 
definition of the language, preventing the construct from having the 
desired effect in most implementations”.

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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simple error Haris Bogdanovich <haris.bogdanovic@gmail.com> - 2014-12-28 18:12 +0100
  Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-28 18:25 +0100
    Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 21:00 +0200
      Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-28 21:32 +0100
        Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 23:56 +0200
  Re: simple error Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-12-28 18:46 +0000
    Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 21:13 +0200
      Re: simple error Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-12-28 23:19 +0000
        Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 01:03 +0100
        Re: simple error "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-29 01:08 +0100
    Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-28 20:13 +0100
      Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 22:30 +0200
        Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-28 21:44 +0100
          Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-28 23:50 +0200
            Re: simple error "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-28 23:10 +0100
              Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 03:10 +0100
                Re: simple error "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-29 13:17 +0100
                Re: simple error Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-12-29 12:30 +0000
                Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-29 14:49 +0200
                Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 15:18 +0100
              Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-29 08:20 +0200
                Re: simple error "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-29 12:36 +0100
                Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 15:40 +0100
            Re: simple error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-29 01:04 +0100
              Re: simple error "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-12-29 08:09 +0200

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